Meet Prince Ilvaine: Meet The Minor Players in “The Wall of Night” series

UK/AU/NZ

The “Meet the Minor Players” post features the minor characters in The Wall Of Night series because:

“I think it’s the presence of the smaller characters that “makes” a story, creating texture around the main points of view.”

~ Helen Lowe (from my Legend Award Finalist’s Interview)

Sometimes, as I’ve indicated with other posts in this series, a character may be “minor” in terms of their part in the overall Wall story, but still cut a swathe where they appear. I believe Prince Ilvaine is one of those characters. 😀

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USA

Prince Ilvaine: head of the Ilvaine kin, one of the major merchanter clans of Ij

An Ilvaine standard, its golden leopard rampant on an indigo field, formed one wall of the pavilion. The beast’s eyes glittered topaz and diamond, its forepaws struck at the air. A second leopard gleamed on the long tunic of the man standing at the center of the gathering, directly in front of the banner. A circlet of gold confined his white hair, and his face was all old parchment and sharply etched bones.

Leto Ilvaine stopped a few paces in front of him and sank to one knee. “My grandfather and my prince,” the young man said, “I bring you Aravenor, Lord Captain of the Patrol, and Jehane Mor and Tarathan of Ar, heralds of the Guild from Terebanth.”